Nildo Ouriques

As a native of the southern state of Santa Catarina, Ouriques has spoken about the legacy of European immigration and the latifúndio system on current right-wing voting patterns in the region. Ouriques is active in the local PSOL branch in Santa Catarina, joining their launch rally for party candidates running in the 2018 election cycle.

In the 2018 Brazilian presidential election, Ouriques attempted to run for president as a member of the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL). However, he lost the party's nomination to labor leader Guilherme Boulos. Ouriques accused PSOL leadership of unfair favoritism towards Boulos.

Ouriques is a staunch critic of the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, arguing that Brazil's foreign policy had become that of a banana republic under his rule. He has argued that the PT and the "liberal left" are unequipped to face the threats posed by Bolsonaro's rule. Ouriques has compared Bolsonaro to Augusto Pinochet, the right-wing dictator of Chile from 1974 to 1990. Additionally, Ouriques has argued that the Bolsonaro Administration has destroyed Brazil's status as an emerging power, and has relegated the country to being a proxy for U.S. interests in the region.

Nildo Domingos Ouriques (born 1959) is a Brazilian economist and academic. He has served as president of the Institute for Latin American Studies (IELA) at the Federal University of Santa Catarina and as a professor of economics at the same university. Throughout his academic career, he has taught at institutions across the world, including the National University of Tucumán in Argentina, the University of Padua in Italy, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the Bolivarian University of Venezuela, and Simón Bolívar University in Quito, Ecuador. In 2020, Ouriques was included on a list of so-called "government detractors" in academia and journalism.